Zigbee Updates Its Green Power Certification Process

My first home automation system included a set of “smart” outlets and an X10 controller that sent messages over the house power lines. The budding home automation market that existed back in the mid-1990s flourished into a $46 billion smart home industry by 2017 and is expected to exceed $100 billion by 2025. Unlike X10, which relied on devices being plugged into a wall outlet, many of today’s home automation and IoT products are powered by batteries or energy-harvesting techno…